This is the first year that the College Avenue Compact program has expanded to accommodate Hoover High School graduates who are now in community college. It gives them the option to transfer to San Diego State University with guaranteed admission 2 to 3 years after graduation.
“My hope is that one day you have this platform to speak, that you have a microphone, that you are chancellor, that you come back and also continue to support and give back to the community everything that helped you raise,” said San Diego Unified School District Deputy Superintendent Fabiola Bagula.
Hoover High graduate Osciris Chino will be heading to SDSU in the fall. She plans to major in biology so she can become a veterinarian.
“I’ve always loved animals,” Chino said. “Once, during quarantine, I had like five pets, including birds, fish, a hamster and a dog.”
College Avenue Compact works with Hoover High specifically because it is just down the street. The program wants to help local students.
“My family is very proud because they are also immigrants and I am the first generation,” Chino said.
To join the program, students must maintain a 3.0 GPA and take some college preparatory courses.
“I think the demographics of Hoover High School tend to make more students from lower socioeconomic families take advantage of this initiative,” said Stefan Hyman, SDSU’s associate vice president for enrollment management. “But it’s not explicit, in terms of this only being open to students who meet certain income criteria for all Hoover High School graduates.”
This year, there are about 60 graduates in the program, one of the largest classes yet.
Next year the university will aim even higher.
“Thank you very much,” Bagula said. “I am very proud of you. May God be with you. Thank you.”
Hoover High students hoping to enter the program will see program directors on campus this fall for recruitment.
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